The unsolved national murder cases...

[sdreid]

Hi Dougie,

No problem. I remember seeing somewhere (perhaps the New York Times site) that you could get the contemporary newspaper reports. Not sure but I think you might have to pay for them though.

[dougie]

Pay? Dont you know that that word is a swear word to a scot?
regards

[sdreid]

Hi Dougie,

I'm with you on that and I'm only about 1/8 Scot.

[Steve S]

Can't believe I'm the first to mention the Princes in the Tower.......?
Steve

[Celesta]

Can't believe I'm the first to mention the Princes in the Tower.......?
Steve

And smart you are for thinking of it! Good thing it wasn't a snake, hunh?

I don't know if we've met before, but if not, let me say welcome to the Casebook, your own, personal, run-away, Ripper locomotive!

Best,

Cel

[Steve S]

And smart you are for thinking of it! Good thing it wasn't a snake, hunh?

I don't know if we've met before, but if not, let me say welcome to the Casebook, your own, personal, run-away, Ripper locomotive!

Best,

Cel

This is the return......I was here a few years ago,but the medication seems to have worked........
Steve

[Celesta]

This is the return......I was here a few years ago,but the medication seems to have worked........
Steve

Okay! Well, I've only been here for a little over a year, so you are still new to me.

Carry on!

Cel

[Doppelganger]

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20030116/WFIVE_danabradley_20021206/

one very close to me here in Newfoundland

wow that was longer then i thought i`ll edit and just leave the link.

[j.r-ahde]

Hello Doppelganger!

Interesting, very interesting...

So, the man didn't get a conviction, despite the confession!

On the other hand; I cannot help wondering, who else might have been the murderer...

All the best
Jukka

[sdreid]

Yes, that is a sad case. Somehow, I don't think that guy did it but he sounds like a good person to keep in prison anyway.

[Nemesis Legion]

Wasn’t there a movie made about this (it was loosley based) Wolf Creek I think

[Paul O'Henry]

Stavisky Affair

Hi Jeff et all,

Some notes about Alexandre Stavisky aka Serge Alexandre.
The politicians "protecting" the swindler like former Minister of Justice Rene Renoult were members of the Radical (Socialist) Party not the Socialist Party; despite the name the Radicals were centre-left (at that time...).
But Stavisky had also several lawyers on his "payroll" as well as police officers like Inspector Bayard who hired him as an informer and later protected him, or Emile Digoin who is very likely responsible for the disappearence of a falisified check and other files about Stavisky from offiices of the Police Judiciaire, after he left PJ he worked for Stavisky.
Stavisky owned or financed newspapers and was intelligent enough to let the system of the administration of the 3. Republic work for him, like f.e. the rivalry between the Police Judiciaire, the Prefect of Police and the Sûreté Generale and the inflexibility of the bureaucrats.
Did he commit suicide?
Stavisky often said to his accomplices that before he go to prison he'll kill himself, therefore it's quite likely that when the police knocked at his door the shoot himself; the presse in France at the time always claimed MURDER even when all evidence says SUICIDE.
The Judge you mentioned decaptivated was Albert Prince, at that time judge of the court of appeal, before he was head of the financial section of the public prosecutor (Georges Pressard). Both did nothing against Stavisky for years...; at the 20. Jan. 1934 at about 9 p.m. the engine driver of a goods train arriving at Dijon station encountered blood and brain at the front of his locomotive, police later found the body of judge Prince ca. 2 Kilometers away.
At first sight it was murder, but later investigations seemed to show that Albert Prince commit suicide masked as murder.
If you want to know more about Stavisky I highly recommend Paul F. Jankowskis book Stavisky, A confidence Man in the Republic of Virtue.

kind regards
Paul

[Mayerling]

Hi Paul,

There was also a film about the man and the scandal made in the 1970s. It was the last film (made in France) that Charles Boyer appeared in. I think it was called STAVISKY.

The Chautemps Left wing government was destroyed by the scandal. It gave a great boost to the right wing political movements who would end up supporting the Vichy regime in World War II. Finally it may have led to a dislike for foreign refugees (like Stavisky) in France - and forced Trotsky to leave France and head for Mexico (where he'd be murdered by a Stalinist agent in 1940).

It was probably true that Stavisky thought of suicide, but his death was a trifle opportune. So was Judge Prince's.

Best wishes,

Jeff

[sdreid]

I don't think it ever was mentioned here but the 1991 Baby Hope Case seems to be on the brink of being solved. She was an unidentified little girl who was found in a cooler along a New York highway. The child had been neglected, abused in several ways and suffocated.

Although her name hasn't been released yet, Hope's mother has been identified through DNA after she was overheard talking about the case. The woman claims that her estranged husband abducted the girl so he is now the chief person of interest although I don't believe he has been located yet.

It has been released that the victim was 4 years old and Hispanic.

[sdreid]

Another report says that it was actually the victim's older sister who was overheard discussing her personal knowledge of the Baby Hope Case.